Out of the 75 parties compiled during the collation exercise of the Presidential elections from the 44 Local Government Areas of Kano, President Muhammadu Buhari of the APC has defeated his opponents with 1,464,768 votes.
Atiku and Buhari The figures were declared at about 3:00 am on Tuesday at the Kano headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC by the state Collation Officer Professor Magaji Garba of the Federal University of Gusau.
The total registered voters in the state is 5,391,581 but only 1,964,651 votes were cast of which 73,617 were declared as rejected votes.
This has placed the APC as having 74% in the elections. Following the APC candidate with an overwhelming margin of 1,073,175 votes is Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party PDP who polled 391,593 votes standing at 20%. Kano has a total 4,870,307 collected PVCs in all of which only 40% participated in the elections thereby suggesting a discouraging turnout at the polls.
The performance of the ruling APC, especially in it’s stronghold in Kano has depreciated with the emerging percentages. In his brief address at the signing of the result shit EC8D, the Collation Officer thanked all the stakeholders for the smooth conduct despite the challenges involved.
